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The Union Mining Park, which will be visited from the month of July has been officially launched in Madrid in a ceremony presided over by the town council of Madrid and President of the Municipal Board Arganzuela, María Dolores Navarro Ruiz, Mayor La Union, Francisco Bernabé, and the Director General of Tourism in the Region of Murcia, Marina Garcia, and Chairman of the House of the Region of Murcia in Madrid, Luis Fernandez.
The presentation of the Mining Park has been made by the Mayor of La Union, Francisco Barnabas, who, with audiovisual support, explained this important tourism project in the mining town to become "one of the references in this sector in the Region of Murcia ".
For Barnabas, it is "a unique place where visitors can discover the lifestyle of the former miners of the nineteenth century."
Subsequently, we presented the documentary "The Union Mine Heart ', in collaboration with the Autonomous Community of Murcia.
This audiovisual presentation of 25 minutes, takes a tour of the mining history of La Union through the experiences of a miner and his ancestors.
This has been rebuilt several scenarios of the time in 3D and used drama with actors for greater realism.
The presentation of the Mining Park is part of the partnership agreements between the City Councils of Madrid and La Union to encompass, in addition to this act, the conclusion, on the morrow of a selective test Competitions International Song Festival Mine and a concert by the Coral Argentum.
All these events take place in the contemporary creation, Slaughterhouse Madrid, located in the neighborhood of Chopera (District Arganzuela).
UNION PARK MINING
Mineral Park is a pioneering activity in the recovery of historical heritage to its value as an attractive tourist and cultural nature, because it involves the recovery of a total of eight former mining sites of the nineteenth century that will see "in situ" how they lived and worked for former miners of the Sierra de Cartagena - La Unión.
The complex occupies a total of 50,000 square meters in the foothills of the Sierra Minera and the same will have a mining train that moves to tourists throughout the different spaces that are intended to visit.
Specifically, the Park provides for the rehabilitation and musealization of Road 33, former gateway to the mining operations through the Sierra and links with Portman Union and the Mediterranean Sea, a kiln, a few magazines, of a vein of tin ore in a laundry, a raft of sludge from the mine "Paul and Virginia", which has acted outside its facilities, and spectacular mine "Group Vicenta", undoubtedly one of the most powerful attraction to those who will have the Region of Murcia.
The mine "Group Vicenta" dates back to 1869 and their recovery has become a unique and magical, absolutely different.
Its more than four thousand square meters open to the public, more than eighty feet deep, making it one of the mines visited largest in Europe, along one of the most impressive and unique in its vaults for more than eight feet, its huge galleries, special columns and its underground lake red water due to the pyrite.
The Mining Park is an initiative led by the municipality of La Union and which construction began in summer 2007.
The entire project involved an investment of nearly three and a half million euros, which have been paid between the municipalities of La Union and Cartagena, the Autonomous Community of Murcia, through the concerted action of four Departments different, highlighting the special support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the project, and the Government of Spain, through the participation of two different ministries.
The Mining Park of La Union, despite not having yet been opened, has already received two major national awards: the award Santa Barbara, an award that the Official College of Mining Engineering was awarded as the best action taken in Spain Rehabilitation and recovery of the mining heritage, and the award of the prestigious European business magazine Business World, which considers the Mining Park the most innovative initiative that will launch in the Region of Murcia in 2010.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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